CIA says Iran has 70 percent of pre-war missiles, can ride out blockade for months: Report
(www.middleeasteye.net)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 11 May 00:24
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from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 11 May 00:24
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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/47150225
May 7, 2026
Iran can withstand the US naval blockade against it for three or four more months before facing severe economic hardship, the CIA told the Trump administration this week, according to a report by The Washington Post on Thursday.
The report also said the CIA has found that Tehran retains “significant ballistic missile capabilities” …
The CIA report flies in the face of public statements by the Trump administration, which has claimed that the vast majority of Iran’s drone and missile capabilities have been destroyed.
The US has said that Iran is running out of storage space for its oil…
Analysts have told MEE that Iran has “weeks” of storage space left.
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To the surprise of who (with a brain) exactly?
Wait I thought we destroyed all their missles? 🤡
Their whatsles?
MISSLES!
Like measles with only one eye.
place some measles inside a missile.
Their entire military capabilities were completely destroyed 7 times a day for the last couple months. Iran now has -392 militarys.
They now have 1000% less missiles.
Oof, that’s a lot less! So in metric percentage it’s 30?
So you’re telling me they’re exploiting buffer underflows?
oh no.
They exploited the civ1 gandhi method
I am getting the feeling Iran was preparing for this very contingency for decades!
I’m shocked! Shocked!
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I have like 5 favorite surprise meme images and I use them every chance I get. Even if it’s gratuitous.
Preparing for contingencies? That’s for communists. Stable geniuses react randomly to events as they occur by throwing unqualified yes men at them.
its not like they have experience from fighting israel, or getting intelligence from russia, and ccp.
FAFO Donnie.
I think donnie boy and kegsbreath dont understand what ‘decimated’ actually means.
Maybe they do but by ignorance as it originally was used as a punishment for a Roman legion that failed. Every 10th man was executed hence “decimate”.
We made them shoot 30% of their missiles. That’s 3 decimations.
As long as they keep shooting missiles, we keep winning 😎 . Trump is playing 3d chess ♟️, weakening his opponent’s fists with his face.
As our economy weakens, so too does Iran’s weapons stockpiles. A Devil’s bargain or the art of the deal? How many moves ahead must we be for Trump to halt Project Freedom just so that Iran can save face?
That’s the historical meaning but it can also mean this (according to Merriam Webster):
3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number
3 b: to cause great destruction or harm to
Yeah, nowadays the word is used from its brutality, not the exact number. The point is not just that every 10th was killed, but that the rest of them were made to do it.
How do you say Art of the War in Persian?
Honar-e Jang.
Unfortunately I want this to keep going and gas prices to skyrocket. So my countrymen will get a punch to the mouth. Since apparently the only thing that can break them out of a cult is gas prices and suffering.
Ironically I think this self made oil crisis is the kick in the nuts the world needed to adopt more clean energy options. Even if oil is being burned more now, the high price is pushing many to use green tech. I hope that oil prices skyrocket for the average person so we do something positive for global warming.
trump though this would be a temporary distraction from the epstein files, now that iran has collapsed with 3 days, and is going on for months.
Meanwhile, realclearpolitics.com/…/sen_mark_kelly_shocking_h…
they are likely going to receive equipment from russia and china to build even more.
I kinda doubt they’ll be getting anything from Russia.
China is more likely though.
good luck iran against imperialist USA and israel
Wait I thought we had a free and democratic strait now thanks to the yanks.
I don’t trust anything, anyone from this US regime says. A government run by pedophiles, charlatans, worm brain, alcoholics, rapist, faux Christians. At this point I trust Iran propaganda more than whatever BS the US is spewing.
interesting…